Superinvestors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom
Jesse Felder worked for the largest firm on Wall Street, co-founded a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund firm and has been active in the markets for over 25 years. This podcast is his journey to talk with a number of superinvestors who have been an inspiration to him in an effort to understand what makes them so successful in the financial markets and in life.
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Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Roger McNamee is one of the most successful technology investors of all time. While running the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, and generating a 17% compound average growth rate in the process, Roger made the unheard of move of committing capital, as a mutual fund manager, to venture investments in Electronic Arts and Sybase. From there, he started the industry's first crossover fund with John Doer, investing in both late-stage venture capital and public market securities. In March of 2000, he co-founded private equity firm Silver Lake Partners in anticipation of the tech bust and, in 2004, founded Elevation Partners where he would become one of the first investors in Facebook and other nascent tech stars. In this episode, Roger shares what made him so successful as an investor, how music saved his life and why he has shifted his focus today from investing in tech to warning of the rising risks tech giants present to democracy and society. For notes and links related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Among professional investors, Kiril Sokoloff is well known for his ability to identify major trends early on in their development cycle. For this reason his views are some of the most sought out in the world of finance. Since 1983 he has been sharing his thoughts about markets and more at the firm he founded, 13D Research, via its weekly report, What I Learned This Week. In this episode, we discuss his research process, how he goes about identifying these major trends and his current views about markets and economies around the world. For notes and links related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Tobias Carlisle runs Carbon Beach Asset Management and is the author of several books including Deep Value, Concentrated Investing and his latest, The Acquirer's Multiple. In this episode we discuss both the similarities and the differences between the successful value investing methodologies employed by investing greats like Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn. Toby also shares his views on the "death of value," focused investing and position sizing and updates his views on some recent stock picks. For notes and links related to this Episode visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast.
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Peter Atwater was pioneer in securitization and has served in important leadership roles at some of the largest financial institutions on the planet. Today, he writes and speaks extensively about how changes in confidence affect our preferences, decisions and actions. In this episode we discuss how he discovered socionomics, what about it appealed to him and how it shapes his views on the markets and more. For links and notes related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast.
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
Erik Townsend is a retired software entrepreneur turned hedge fund manager and host of the Macro Voices podcast. In this conversation Erik shares some of his formative experiences like breaking into MIT as a teenager to eventually selling his software firm near the height of dotcom mania. He explains why it "sucked" being a young retiree on a yacht in the Caribbean and how he's much happier today working long hours at his trading desk running his hedge fund. He also discusses his current macro framework and some of major themes that inform his trading today. For links and notes related to our conversation visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast.
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
To regular listeners, Mark Yusko needs no introduction. It was just a few months ago he appeared on the podcast to discuss Gut Instinct (And Why His Says We're Headed For A Crash). This time Mark shares his thoughts on the wild popularity of passive investing, the outright disdain for hedge fund investing and his potential 10-year bet with Warren Buffett. For notes and links related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com/Podcast.
Thursday Oct 05, 2017
Thursday Oct 05, 2017
Danielle DiMartino Booth started her career on Wall Street before shifting gears into journalism where she caught the eye of none other than the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett. Eventually, she found herself working as an advisor to Richard Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Today, she shares her thoughts with institutional investors via "Money Strong," her weekly newsletter, and is the author of a new book, Fed Up: An Insider's Take On Why The Federal Reserve Is Bad For America. In this episode we discuss her experience inside the Federal Reserve, her qualms with its popular policies over the past few decades and her thoughts on how they could be rectified. For notes and links related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast.
Tuesday Sep 26, 2017
Tuesday Sep 26, 2017
Dale Wettlaufer began his career as a fool, a Motley Fool that is, where he first learned to ply his trade as an analyst. A few years later, he found himself working in the same capacity for a legitimate mutual fund rock star. Today he runs a long/short strategy under his own shingle. In this conversation, Dale discusses what he learned during his time with Bill Miller at Legg Mason and how his value investing discipline has evolved into that which he employs at his new firm, Charlotte Lane Capital. For notes and links related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast.
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
William White started his career at the Bank of England before moving to the Bank for International Settlements where he served as chief economist. Today he is the chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECD in Paris. Last fall Bill received the Adam Smith prize, the highest honor of the US National Association of Business Economists, where he gave a speech titled Ultra-Easy Money: Digging the Hole Deeper? In this conversation we discuss where his contrarian economic philosophy comes from, how it leads him to worry a bit more than most about the undesired side effects of experimental monetary policy and its possible end games. For notes and links related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com.
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Mark Yusko cut his teeth co-managing the endowment portfolio at Notre Dame and then putting together a team to do the same for the University of North Carolina. From there he setup a fund of hedge funds for Julian Robertson to take advantage of the talent Julian had identified at Tiger Management. Today, he oversees $3 billion at his firm Morgan Creek Capital Management. Mark is one of the most avid and astute students of value investing as a discipline I've come across. In this conversation we discuss his evolution as an investor, how and why he learned to listen to his gut and what it's telling him today: that we could be headed for a stock market crash. For notes, links and charts related to this episode visit TheFelderReport.com/podcast.